Katja, HenttonenMari, MatinlassiBleek, Wolf-GideonRaasch, JörgZüllighoven, Heinz2019-05-152019-05-152007978-3-88579-199-7https://dl.gi.de/handle/20.500.12116/22785Open source software has gained a lot of well-deserved attention during the last few years. Eclipse is one of the most successful open source communities providing an open development environment and an application lifecycle platform. The main aim of this paper is to describe a case study on contributing to the Eclipse open source community and report experiences. The most important experiences are related to building an architecture model repository tool as an Eclipse plug-in and starting a new community around it.enText/Conference Paper1617-5468